A lot of my work here on the farm revolves around woody stuff, whether it's looking after trees or making things and fixing things...
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| One of two king size trestles, already very useful, it receives several alien radio stations too ha ha |
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| A typical farm job for me, fixing the floor in the grain store... |
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| ...ready for the excellent crop of barley... |
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| ...and there it is, safely stored away to help feed the pigs and other animals |
It's been fascinating to watch the whole ploughing, sowing, harvesting etc process here for the barley. It was a good crop but then the field's been either fallow or just had pigs on it for several years and ploughing breaks down the natural structures in the soil that keep it healthy, so it's unlikely that the yield would be so good if we did that again next year. To me this is the kind of farming that we need move away from, into something less energy intensive. But what exactly? I'm hoping we find the time to explore perennial cereals and other perennial crops, maybe in strips with different seedings through the year...
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